Description

SX 74 NW
5/116

LODDISWELL
WEEKE
Outer Weeke Farmhouse

GV
II
Farmhouse. C17 or earlier origins, remodelled and extended circa early and/or mid C19.

Painted slate rubble. Asbestos tile roof with gabled ends and hipped on south west corner. Stone rubble lateral and gable end stacks with short brick shafts.

Plan and Development: Double depth, almost square, plan. The two south rooms are probably the hall with a lateral stack at the front, and inner room (with a gable end stack) of a C17 or earlier three-room plan house, the lower wall end of which was probably demolished in the C19 when a kitchen wing was built behind the hall (northwest) with a gable end stack and unheated dairy was built behind the inner room (northeast), the eaves were raised and the house reorientated to face west. In the late C20 a small single storey outbuilding was built on the north of the kitchen.

Exterior: Two storeys. Asymmetrical two-window west front with C20 sixteen pane sashes, C19 twenty-pane sash on ground floor left and doorway to left of centre with circa late C19 or early C20 glazed door. The north elevation has lateral stack to left centre with weathered set-off, C20 sixteen-pane sash at centre of first floor and C20 casements on ground floor with French casement on right. The east elevation has projecting gable end stack on left with set-offs, C19 casements and sashes, two gables on north elevation, the right hand with projecting stacks and C20 single storey outbuildings.

Interior: almost entirely C20 interior joinery. The south east room (former inner room) has gable end fireplace and large slate lintel concealed by C20 fireplace and with chamfered half-beam above in end wall. The former hall has fireplace with chamfered cambered timber lintel and crossbeam boxed in. C20 staircase in former stair turret behind hall. The kitchen has what is probably a smoking chamber or creak-oven (now blocked) to right of the fireplace. The roof structure is C20.

Listing NGR: SX7082747883

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26462282

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Recommended Books

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  Dorset (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Hertfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Georgian Style and Design for Contemporary Living
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  Huddersfield in 50 Buildings
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990: Updated version
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  Cumbria: Cumberland, Westmorland and Furness (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)